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First Look: OLPC XO-2

(Posted on  LAPTOP Magazine: The Pulse of Mobile Technology  4 months ago)

I am here this morning in Cambridge, Mass., at OLPC’s Global Country Workshop. Opening the conference this morning was OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, who announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop, which will be called the XO-2.… (visit source article)
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